late to the trailer;

[commie]

Don't be quick to think those tears were for me.

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[debts]

You'd know better.

[commie]

Not as well as I'd like.

[debts]

It'll come back, one of these days.

[commie]

This your way of telling me to keep up?

[debts]

You were asleep for a long time.

[commie]

There wasn't a need. [ For me. ]

I hear the war ended.

[debts]

A lot of things did.

[ And a lot of things didn't. ]

[commie]

[ The irony of time telling if it's a good thing or a bad thing. ]

But not the fighting.

It's good to see you keeping busy.

[debts]

You made it easy.

[ What— like she wasn't trying to find you? Or start those rumors herself? ]

[commie]

[ He has a word for her persistence - it's just not a good word for people like them. ]

I'd like to say that wasn't my intention, but you know how much truth there is in that.

[widowing]

Writing yourself off so soon?

[commie]

Just pointing out the flaws in logic. Would you think the same?

[widowing]

I doubt very much they're going to be getting rid of anyone whose codename is in the title.

[ but stranger things have happened. ]

[commie]

I wouldn't presume you'd cry for me.

[ Tears don't really have a place where we're from, do they. ]

[widowing]

[ they're a waste. an indulgence we can't afford. ]

Good.

[commie]

[ Sentimentality for people like us. ]

My respects to your loss, nonetheless.

[widowing]

Not just mine.

[commie]

Don't waste your tears for someone else's pain, Tasha.

[widowing]

I didn't say the pain wasn't mine.

[oldglory]

For you?

[ Because of you, maybe— he can't bring himself to say it.

So he sticks with: ]

...Wouldn't bet on it.

[commie]

[ You'd be in agreement, if the sentiment will come from a separate spectrum entirely. ]

You're not as daft as you're made to be, then.

[oldglory]

[ There's the hint of a humorless smile. ]

Is that what they're calling me?

[ They— Bucky's handlers, the media, people in the streets. He doesn't know who he means, doesn't think it matters. ]